Posted on 06/10/2012 2:23:00 PM PDT by Orange1998
DALLAS - Walking is just fine with 58-year-old Mary Cecil, who used to be an avid runner.
"I was running and I started feeling pain in my left leg, and it was also tender when I slept on that side," she said. Cecil suspected a shin splint or pulled muscle.
A bone scan, however, revealed a rare and aggressive tumor called dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma. The bone cancer is virtually unstudied. According to limited information, only one in 10 diagnosed with it survive two years. "Very scary," recalled Cecil of how she felt upon learning of the diagnosis.
"The world just turned upside down in one visit here." Cecil had surgery to remove the cancerous part of her femur and replace it with a metal implant, but that wasn't enough. She struggled with powerful chemotherapy medications. "Ms. Cecil's tumor was resistant to every single drug that we were giving her," said Dr. Jorge Casas, an orthopaedic oncologist at Forest Park Medical Center.
"And it was resistant to most of the drugs that we would have given her." Casas said chemo-sensitivity tests were ordered in this case because the cancer is so difficult to treat. In other more common cancers, studied regularly, tests have previously shown what drugs may work best. Based on the sensitivity test, and new research, Forest Park doctors decided to try an unconventional approach, using over-the-counter vitamin D and the common arthritis drug, Celebrex.
Recent studies show vitamin D does more than just reinforce strong bones. "So, the vitamin D can inhibit growth of the cancer cells," Casas explained. "Celebrex has been shown to inhibit a process called angiogenesis, which is the formation of new blood vessels in other unrelated cancers." It worked.
A year after diagnosis, Cecil is considered cancer-free.
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The cure is out there just not in the big cancer business.
There have been so many cases of people being cured and cancer free from natural products. I just Pray if I get it, I will be able to find the right one for me.
would you explain your second sentence, about copper & zinc...thanks
Cox-2 inhibitors are are not a new class of NSAIDS; also, Celebrex has been around since late 1998. It was taken off the market for a while and is now back. I took it back then, it was good but made me dizzy;had to stop it.
Re: vitamin D. I was on 50,000 D2 every day for several months. No side effects. It got my level up to 70. When I backed off it the level dropped back to 30 where it was and still is today. I take 4000+ a day to keep it at 30. So, everyone has different needs and different reactions; and so I also need to double my D dose. LOL
When I said COX-2 inhibitors were new, it was relatively speaking. They have been around a bit longer than a decade compared to say, aspirin, which has been around since 1897 or so (some debate in the matter) and acetaminophen, which has been around since the 1950’s.
This applies to supplements rather than what is ingested from food, but if you take too much copper without enough zinc, it can cause problems.
Minerals in your body are often matched in ratios with their ‘partner minerals’. Copper competes with zinc in the body, so if you are not getting enough zinc or your body is using it up too fast, copper can rise, or if your body is retaining too much copper, it can deplete your zinc.
Our bodies are marvelously in balance and when we add more of this or that, or take a new prescription, it may have unintended side effects. Often we don’t know what these are until a problem arises. I’ve never thought it wise to take mega-doses of anything. Just me, though. Everyone has to do his own research and make his own decisions.
For the straight skinny on actual safe daily dosing amounts, go to www.vitamindcouncil.org Best info available on Vit D3. The site also has a link to purchase at home test kits. Site contains a wealth of information on D3.
Chemo kills people quickly, but only kills the weak tumor cells, leaving a scattering of resistant cells to revive an omnipotent tumor later.
Chemo is solely a money drug for big pharma and the med establishment. It does not cure ever. (exception: a treatment that is not used in the US, insulin potentiation/low dose chemo is sometimes helpful on certain types of tumors)
>> “Can you get celebrex over the counter?” <<
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You don’t want it! - Known for causing strokes and heart attacks, and many other problems.
>> “but it’s balanced by the risk of melanoma from having light skin” <<
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No such risk exists.
Melanoma is prominent in those that work indoors. It is unheard of in those working outdoors every day.
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Some small number of cancers go into remission of their own accord, or rather the body manages to conquer them. Group studies would be needed to determine if nutriceuticals beat placebo.
“No such risk exists.”
Of course it does, if you are talking about populations in aggregate, which I was. Whites have about a four times higher rate of melanoma than other races. That’s quite an increased risk, if you are speaking about evolutionary tradeoffs.
Intelligent people do not speak about ‘evolutionary’ anything.
“Intelligent people do not speak about ‘evolutionary’ anything.”
Sure they do. I was speaking of Natural Selection causing changes in our species over time, which is a type of evolution. I don’t know a single creationist, of which I am one, who tries to deny that, it would be ludicrous.
Thank you for the link.
I’m sorry I must be dense,
what happens if they are out of “match”
There has never been any increased suceptibility to melanoma for those with white skin.
The only association between melanoma and sunlight is that sunlight, via vit D most likely, reduces the chance, and even totally prevents it.
Sun lotion, due mostly to the parabens contained therein, and to the reduction of the very necessary UV, increases risk.
Don’t let Madison Ave rule your mind. (they lie for money, believe it, or not)
Perhaps of interest ping? ;-)
We own a DVD called The Beautiful Truth. You can watch the whole thing on Youtube now.
It’s about a rather controversial cancer cure discovered by a guy that fought the AMA and died under very suspicious conditions.
The video, along with personal research on the internet, will open one’s eyes. And you’ll never give a cent to anything with a pink ribbon, ever again.
“There has never been any increased suceptibility to melanoma for those with white skin.”
Yes there has. I don’t see how it is debatable, there is a trove scientific data to back it up, for example:
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/race.htm
“The only association between melanoma and sunlight is that sunlight, via vit D most likely, reduces the chance, and even totally prevents it.”
Hogwash. If this were true, then every person on the planet would have white skin by now. Any beneficial mutation that has no downside will eventually spread to the entire population. The fact that the mutation which leads to lack of melanoma has not become ubiquitous is evidence enough that there is a downside, and we have all the evidence we need to know that the downside is in all likelihood the increased risk of melanoma.
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